CRIM 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Big Data, Academic Freedom, The Injury
8 May 2018
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Chapter 3 – Ethics in Social Research
Ethics Principals
- Two fundamental principals that you undoubtedly will have to deal with are:
o Free and informed consent
o Confidentially
o Conflicts of roles/duties/interests, the problem of divided loyalties
Free and Informed Consent
- Coset has to e free
- It ust e ifored
- Can be obtained as appropriate
- In field research, consent is oral
- Current Issues
o Secondary data; linking diverse data sets beyond anticipated consent
o Big excitement about big data
o Public vs private spaces
o (Un)equal rights
Confidentiality
- A fundamental obligation. Probably the most important for social sciences, criminology.
- We must be able to talk to people, and not just those who have been convicted.
- Criiolog’s approah exemplified by ACJS
- Code of Ethics (section 19)
- Formal threats are rare in Canada
- More routinely, the biggest thing to remember is day-to-day management of
confidentiality:
o Cofidetialit is the partiipat’s right
o Do’t e a laerouth; do’t leae aroud
o Anonymize wherever possible and as soon as possible
o If appropriate, anticipate the Wigmore criteria
o Do’t e as thoughtless as our proiial goeret
Conflict of Roles/Divided Loyalties
- Professionalization/proliferation of research skills/interests opens possibility for COI
- You must distinguish roles when different standards create a potential conflict: (p.2.4)
Confidentiality Updates
- The Russel Ogden case and its lesson
o Never trust a university administrator
o Need to avoid institutional conflicts of interest
o The importance of Wigmore
- The big news since publication of Research Decisions in another case
- Search warrant served on Professors Bruckert and parent at uOttawa/Crim
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Document Summary
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